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Based on my own experience, I can prove that it is perfectly possible to survive in the modern world if you are named after a thing: my name, Mercedes Bunz, reminds everyone of a certain Stuttgart-produced marque of car.

Given that Mercedes was actually the name of the car inventor\’s daughter, after which the car is named…..

Sales of king-size beds have overtaken ordinary doubles for the first time as middle-class couples increasingly see their beds as “social spaces” rather than just places to sleep.

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Story here.

Via, this

The cold snap may have only just bitten but Heathrow\’s snow team has been working for months to ensure the UK\’s hub airport will once again be prepared for the onset of winter.

With an extra half a million pounds invested in equipment this year, Heathrow’s airside department run constant checks of runway and taxiway areas, applying de-icing and of course clearing any snow and debris away.

Heathrow\’s specialist teams – which includes 50 highly trained staff and more than 60 hi-tech vehicles – have been preparing since the end of last winter to do everything they can to minimise delays in the face of wintry conditions.

The airport employs a fleet of snow ploughs and de-icing vehicles to clear and prepare runways and taxiways at the airport\’s specialist snow base which sits in between the two runways. Heathrow\’s airside operations teams have spent the summer refreshing their training with plans being discussed with airlines, baggage handlers and air traffic control to ensure a coordinated response.

\”Hello moosefuckers! I tell you why I hate Canada, half of you speak French, and the other half let them.\”

For this line led to Jerry Sadowitz being knocked unconscious by an angry member of the audience.

Not that many readers of this blog are likely to be asked to open a comedy gig in Montreal, jus\’ sayin\’ like.

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Ladies and Gentlemen, please start your doggies

Via Angry Bear.

Does bathing a baby make it wet?

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She asks me to bring your attention to something else so I give you some of her cartooning.

aeroplane from lucy pepper on Vimeo.

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From the boys at El Reg.

No, really, they released a purely paper aeroplane from 89,500 feet and then tracked it as it landed back on Earth, astronaut entirely safe and sound.

Yes, nice piece, including a great all time classic.

However:

Not all of the messages contained in urban myths are as innocent. As they serve to express and reinforce the preoccupations and fears of the societies in which they circulate, it\’s no surprise that some are less than savoury. The tale of sexually promiscuous \”Aids Mary\” or \”Aids Harry\”, who inject unsuspecting sexual partners with contaminated blood, is a particularly nasty instance.

The thing is, there have been instances of this, even prosecutions. Not an urban myth at all.

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A couple of them for you:

47. So I met this gangster who pulls up the back of people\’s pants, it was Wedgie Kray.

33. I was having dinner with Garry Kasporov (world chess champion) and there was a check tablecloth. It took him two hours to pass me the salt.

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